Moghul

Dope

I'd been using linux for work for a couple years and it was going fine. I had a pretty crappy laptop at home with limited storage and I was constantly wrestling with Windows storing update stuff, installing adware during updates, etc.

I'd heard of proton and about how well it was going with it, so I had an idea linux gaming was possible.

Eventually something happened during a windows update that required I reinstall the OS and I just pulled out the flash drive I used to install linux on my work machine and tried it out. Eventually I did have to dual boot (on a bigger drive) for some games, but nowadays I'm all linux everywhere.

It depends. If my friends call me by my name, I immediately feel like something serious has happened to them and they need my help.

If my coworkers, parents, or acquaintances call me by my alias, it's because I'm either dreaming, living in a simulation, or something has gone very very wrong. That'd put me in fight/flight/freeze for sure.

gta dot com dot ua

Somehow I don't think that's "their website"

Thanks for waiving that little snafu, I appreciate it, sincerely.

As far as I'm concerned, social democracy is center left. Maybe there's a difference between European and NA perspectives. I live in a social democratic country and I have to say life is pretty good.

This is what I mean by that depiction of the spectrum not being reasonable. I don't see how someone can say that on equal distance from the center you have social democracy and genocide.

You see it as fascism (the far right) and reasonability (the far left). I don't really have anything to say to that other than, that is not reasonable. I come from a formerly communist country. I won't entertain that bullshit.

Edit:

Like if one side said let’s not do slavery, and one side says let’s do slavery, a centralist compromised means being okay with some slavery.

This is completely batshit crazy, what the fuck. I'm a few more drinks in right now and don't have the same filter, but "not slavery" is not what the far left is.

Edit 2: Yeah I probably could've phrased it better or just not answered. Sorry about that, shouldn't have called you batshit crazy. If I were to phrase it better, I don't believe that is a reasonable depiction of what the spectrum looks like. The far left isn't a rainbow land of inclusion, acceptance, and happiness. I don't really care to debate with communists the failings of communism, I'm not going to change my opinion on my experience and they won't change their world view because of some random comment on lemmy.

Fukken saved

It's probably a bad idea to reply in the first place because I don't really want to argue... at all, let alone about politics and what label I or someone else has, but fuck it.

I'm more confused about what you're trying to say than what I think about Gaza. I don't really care about Biden, I'm not an American. There's nothing I can do about what he says or does. I can't tell you whether he's a centrist or not, frankly I don't care.

Naturally, I don't agree with any support whatsoever, financial, military, or otherwise of what Israel is doing in Gaza. The same applies for the vast majority of armed conflict... ever. It might apply to all of it, I don't care to do a quick run through all of human history and make a judgement call on each and every one but... get this. War bad. Subscribe for more hot takes.

As to what I'm doing about it, I'm not protesting or arguing with faceless text online. I don't have the time, inclination, or energy for it. I have a lot of things to worry about that are a lot closer to me. Elections happened, and are coming up, and I'm gonna vote according to my interests which happen to include not supporting Israel.

Having said all that, I'm not even sure how disagreeing with killing innocent people and supplying weapons for killing innocent people is a political alignment factor. Shit's crazy, what the fuck.

As far as I'm concerned, both the far left and the far right have completely insane dealbreaker things I never want to see happen (again). The reason I think I'm centrist is that there are ideas on both sides that are a lot tamer that I think could help us all live fulfilling, comfortable lives. When I think about compromising with either side, it's about trading between these tamer ideas. I think it's strategically worthwhile to not get everything you want from those tamer ideas immediately so you can at least get some of them.

Surely I won't regret typing this out.

Deskmat under the keyboard

Tape and/or foam mods in the case (will change the pitch of the sound, which might disturb less)

O-rings, but these will change how they keyboard feels. I didn't like them

Foam inserts for keycaps - like o-rings but foam. never tried them

Lubricating the stabilizers - should mitigate some space and enter key rattle

If your keyboard supports hotswap, new switches are a more expensive option.

Edit: The person who invented markdown WYSIWYG text editors is on my shit list

There are people in this thread who think being centrist means you're ok with a little genocide. What do you even say to that?

What? Isn't this a common W for steam? This seems like a good thing to me.

Jesus Christ, that's a lot of weirdos.